UEL 'Call for Papers’

UEL ‘Call for Papers’ for international conference and workshops focusing on ‘The Production of Place’

Focusing on the necessary components to sustain places, University of East London will run a four day workshop and conference on 15 – 18 December 2012. Guest speakers include architect Tony Fretton and writer Iain Sinclair, to help question the challenges of global problems in relation to the production of place.

Delegates will design and make structures, responding to the challenges of particular places, together with staff and students. The work will be presented during the conference.

Catalan vaulted structure for William Paton Community Garden, UEL Students

‘The concept of place works across multiple disciplines; as an area of study it requires the application of diverse approaches: merging architecture, urbanism, geography, psychology, as a better means of understanding and responding to places. Critical theorists argue that globally-produced social, economic and environmental conditions are imposed on local places, which are unable to deal with them and maintain their own identity in the process, because of their global provenance.’

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